rituals, which caused shorter stories. The Greeks based each story on everything in their one solid belief, which led to large stories. Some of these stories, known as epics, were large tales that told story upon story through chapters. The Egyptians didn’t have an equivalent to the epic because none of their beliefs were strong enough to write long stories about. Also because the Egyptians beliefs were set on so many different things, they had fewer stories. When the creators argued upon which ritual or belief to write about nothing got written (Edwards 3). This also broke apart the structure the Egyptians lacked. The Greeks had a large structure system that everything was based on that the Egyptians lacked. The rank of the entities and the class the people fell into was based on this structure. The Greeks rank was as follows Zeus, the twelve Olympians, other gods, heroes, the Spirits of Land and Sea, and humans.(Slide 10) The Egyptians weren’t so extensive about their structure and rank. Theirs was as follows Gods, Sun-cult, and peasants ( Cavendish 7). Not only were the Gods rank less structured, the human ranks and class was also. In Greece they had five races of human starting with the Golden class and ending with the Iron (Cavendish 7). While in Egypt there were peasants and no other class or rank in their culture. Some philosophers think the lack of structure in Egypt in comparison to Greece was due to less knowledge and smaller minds (Edwards 3). Because the Greeks had more structure, rank, and class distinctions their mythology was looked upon as the best and related to most often. Greek and Egyptian mythology shared many things, including the use of gods, creators and stories, the Greeks however put more structure into these areas and developed these and others. The Greek’s culture affected their culture and others because they had such a strong basis for their mythology and life. Many cultur...
